Data from the MED-ECHO database covers hospital stays across Quebec. The table shows the number of births, caesarean sections, and stillbirths by health region. It is produced by the Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec from hospital-reported data.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional disparities in birth outcomes based on health region counts
- Monitor trends in caesarean section rates based on reported procedure numbers
- Assess hospital service utilization for maternity care based on stay data
- Compare stillbirth rates across different health regions
Strengths
- Data covers the whole of Quebec, providing provincial scope
- Compiled from hospitals providing general and specialized care, suggesting institutional source reliability
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Quebec-only coverage
Provenance
- Source
- Régie de l'assurance Maladie du Québec
- Collection Method
- Compiled by hospitals from the MED-ECHO database
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:51:37.891855; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Quebec, Canada